Is this the most confounding double speak from a conspiracy theorist ever?

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He appears to be saying that nobody can truly know anything, therefore it's equally valid to believe that the Apollo landings never happened, 9/11 was a US government conspiracy and thirty-seven people simultaneously shot JFK as to believe that Apollo landed, 9/11 was a terrorist attack and Oswald was the only shooter, provided your beliefs aren't internally self-contradictory. It's basically the outright solipsist view of conspiracism, because his underlying assertion is that it's a belief system to believe that there is such a thing as evidence. Probably the best response is to analyse what he believes, if he's honest enough to state it, and point out where it's internally contradictory. With any luck he'll tie himself up in knots trying to resolve the contradictions, and anybody reading his posts critically will see it.

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__________________Me: So what you're saying is that, if the load carrying ability of the lower structure is reduced to the point where it can no longer support the load above it, it will collapse without a jolt, right?

"The idea that you should only believe things that you have evidence for is a belief that you adopted without any evidence. Therefore you are stipulating a standard of behaviour which you yourself do not meet. The conspiracy theorist makes no such stipulation. Therefore their process is internally coherent, but yours is not."

Believing that evidence is necessary is a logical contradiction to him because you don't have evidence for that claim.

In my case the "best" "doublespeak" argument I ever heard from a CT was that the fact there was no convincing evidence for the existence of Bigfoot was evidence for both Bigfoot and the conspiracy to supress the evidence.

In my case the "best" "doublespeak" argument I ever heard from a CT was that the fact there was no convincing evidence for the existence of Bigfoot was evidence for both Bigfoot and the conspiracy to supress the evidence.

Yeah, but you have to keep in mind the mentality of the types of people who say this kind of stuff. I mean, they are the very same people who run around in their local wilderness, at night, making ridiculous sounds which they think are "Bigfoot Calls", and who,when they get a reply, DON'T realise that they are coming from another person, who is also running around in the same local wilderness, at night, making what they think are "Bigfoot Calls".

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